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Final update to let you know that the authors have been revealed and we have come to the end of another NFE! Thank you all for participating, and thank you especially to the pinch-hitters, especially to ViaLethe and Transposable_Element, for helping to make sure everyone got their stories!

The stories were WONDERFUL this year, and I thank you all again, for contributing so much to the fandom.

The collection will remain open for a while, if anyone still has treats they want to upload.

The collection should be opening tomorrow, we're just giving a little extra time to finish up pinch-hits.

Normally the collection would be revealed in the morning, but I'm looking at tomorrow evening right now. I'm going to give 7 pm as the time -- it might be earlier, but I will give an hour warning before I open it, in case anyone is working on last minute edits.

If it's going to be later than 7 pm, I will let you know that as well.

Thank you all for your patience, and all the volunteers for the pinch-hits. I really appreciate it!

Okay, here's the deal. We're going to need two pinch-hits, due to hurricane-related reasons.

I'll be sending out the information to the pinch-hitter list, so please keep your eyes open for that. Also if you'd like to help out and write some treats for those affected by the storm, please shoot me an email at narniaficexchange@gmail.com.

When the pinch-hits are claimed, I'll post an update about the archive opening time, so watch this space. Thank you!

I'm not a stickler on time zones. Midnight your time is when the fics are due. I'll be checking first thing tomorrow morning, if you need that last bit of cushion. :)

Also: I am aware that Hurricane Irma might throw off some participants' ability to post (to say the very least). I've already heard from one person on this issue.

If you're likely to be affected by the storm, please don't worry about the NFE! Your safety is far more important than your story, and we will find pinch-hitters if necessary.

What this means to everyone else: please watch your email and the community for pinch-hits! I don't expect this to be a big issue, and we've always been able to open the collection on time, but if people need time to finish up their stories, we'll delay the opening to make sure everything is complete.

As always: thank you for understanding, for participating in the NFE, and for being such a lovely group!

Due to some requests for extensions and after discussion amongst the mods, we're going to extend the writing time. So instead of your fics being due this Saturday, August 26th, they will be due on Saturday, September 9th. That will give you two extra weeks (with a long weekend included) to finish up your stories.

Revised schedule is below:

Fics due: anytime before September 9thPrompts Revealed/Madness: August 24 - September 16thMain collection opens: September 17thAuthors revealed: September 24th

Also all the prompts have been revealed now, so if you want to write some treats, feel free. You can post them to the main collection (we don't have a separate one this year), but just be sure to tag them as a treat.

Hello all! Just letting you know, after a slight delay, matching is going on, and your assignments should be going out sometime today. If you don't have your assignment by midnight tonight, please let me know ASAP!

Remember, if you have multiple prompts, you can make multiple (up to five) requests! All your prompts don't have to be in one request. I am mentioning this because last year some people's prompts had more characters than they had requested, because you can only request five characters per request. But if you make more than one request, you can request more characters.

Also, if you are requesting relationships, make sure to request those characters as well! The matching will be done by characters first! If you haven't requested those characters, but want them in a relationship, you're unlikely to be matched on those.

So you can see I had five prompts, so I made five requests. I was able to request more than five characters, because I used the multiple requests. I also requested relationships, AND the characters involved in those relationships.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in comments, or email to narniaficexchange@gmail.com

Last call for tagset nominations! You can nominate HERE. I'll update the glossary below with anything that gets nominated by tomorrow.

Below is a glossary of the freeform tags for this year's exchange. Please remember that you don't need to use them! They are here a) to specify if you want a story about your requested character(s) in a particular setting or dealing with a specific concept and b) for people want world-building fic and don't care which characters it’s about. Whether or not you use the tags, you should use the text boxes in the sign-up form to explain what you’re looking for.

lady_songsmith and aurilly are onboard again as mods, so a hello from all of us to both returning and new NFE folks! Welcome to our new home on Dreamwidth. You don't need a DW journal to participate in the NFE, and can comment anonymously, but please make sure to sign your comment/leave an email if you are a participant/need a follow up.

We'll be running on AO3 again this year. If you need a code for AO3, just leave a comment here with your email, or email narniaficexchange@gmail.com or snacky8@gmail.com and I'll send you one.

Tag nominations will open soon, so start thinking of tags! It will work the same way it did last year, and here's last year's Tag Set to refresh your memory. aurilly is the Tag Goddess, so keep your eyes peeled for some posts from her on the topic.

Here is the TENTATIVE* schedule for the exchange:

Tag nominations open: July 5thSignups open: July 12thSignups close: July 21stAssignments sent out: by July 24thFics due: anytime before August 26th Prompts Revealed/Madness: July 13th - September 2ndMain collection opens: September 3rdAuthors revealed: September 10th

*Reasons for the tentativeness of this schedule: getting tags finalized before the assignments go out, and any AO3 glitches like last year where I couldn't generate assignments. I will make sure to update the schedule in this comm, if there are changes.

This year instead of a Madness/Treats collection, we'll be posting treats in the main collection. You will need to tag them as treats. Prompts will be revealed about two weeks into the writing period, and that will give you time to write treats. Due to the reveal of prompts, obviously the exchange will not be double-blind (as it used to be in years past) and you will know who you are writing for.

As usual, Madness is not mandatory, but it's always fun. And if you choose not to participate in the Main Exchange and just in Madness, that's fine!

If people want to write "Dear NFE Writer" letters and post them on LJ/Dreamwidth/Tumblr/wherever, that is fine, but not mandatory! You can put everything you want in your signup, if you like.

In the past, you've been allowed to request crossovers, and fic set in other people's fanverses. You can still do that, but those will have to go in the optional details part of the signup. You cannot request crossovers and fanverses only, though, as your assigned writer may not be familiar with the other fandom/fanverse. So remember to include some canonical requests.

There will also be a box in the offer part of the signup where you, as a writer, can talk about what you like to write, and also put ONE OR TWO dealbreakers of what you can't write (for example, "no incest and I hate Edmund Pevensie"). Bear in mind that it would be extremely unlikely (I mean, it's never ever happened before) in this exchange for you to say, "I can't write slash" and then get matched to someone who only requests slash. Most participants offer several options of what they want, and I don't see this changing.

Okay, I think that's it for now. Start thinking up tags, watch this space for more announcements, and ask any questions you have and we will try to answer them! You can email at narniaficexchange@gmail.com too.

Oh my gosh, you guys, I am so sorry for being late with this. I had all the best intentions and then I probably just fell asleep. Surgery recovery is hard. :(

Anyway, all the authors are revealed now. Thanks a million times to aurilly and songsmith for all their help. Thank you to the pinch-hitters, who as usual, were heroes. Thanks to all of you for participating, and thanks to everyone for reading and leaving comments.

Thanks to everyone who submitted their assignments! I really appreciate you getting them in! We had a couple of defaults, so pinch-hits will be going out some time tonight (when I'm not at work). So pinch-hitters, be on alert!

And now is the time to work on your Madness prompts, if you're so inclined! :D

(Since I will be asleep at midnight and not actually checking AO3, that means your fic is due by the time I wake up in the morning. :D)

The fics will be revealed on September 11th to give the pinch-hitters time to work, so that means you have all that time to polish your fic, if you're still editing! Which god knows I will need too. So basically just have your fic uploaded tonight, and you can polish it if you need to.

Also, the Madness collection will open on September 11th too, so you've still got time for that!

I'll be having surgery next week, but aurilly should be around if you need questions answered.

Yes, that's right! The deadline for submissions is tomorrow, August 31st, by midnight. My midnight is eastern time, your midnight may be in a different timezone! That's okay, I'm flexible. If I wake up on September 1st, and your assignment is in, it's all good.